“sorry, a scientist can’t help us” … It turns out that only a human can help us, because only they have general intelligence, so they can do anything.
It’s easy enough to make this point without the undue confusion and misdirection. If we are talking about researchers, the requirements seem to be (1) high intelligence, e.g. sufficient to (hypothetically) do work in pure math or theoretical physics and (2) willingness to work towards clear understanding of some currently very poorly-understood questions (i.e. hard to make any useful/visible progress).
It’s easy enough to make this point without the undue confusion and misdirection. If we are talking about researchers, the requirements seem to be (1) high intelligence, e.g. sufficient to (hypothetically) do work in pure math or theoretical physics and (2) willingness to work towards clear understanding of some currently very poorly-understood questions (i.e. hard to make any useful/visible progress).